Indie Revolutions Album Of The Month is long awaited come back from The Rifles with ‘Love Your Neighbour’. The album is a gem, a classic.
British indie outfit the Rifles rose to popularity in the mid-2000s with a jaunty garage rock n’ roll sound that has equal parts of Jam-like swagger and a playfulness not unlike contemporaries the Kooks. First grabbing public attention with the 2005 hit “Local Boy,” the band found chart success in the latter part of the decade with their first two albums reaching number two on the U.K. indie charts and 2009’s career highlight Great Escape. Amid subsequent rock-oriented releases like 2014’s None the Wiser, the Rifles also embraced the acoustic format, releasing a pair of acoustic EPs and a 2017 unplugged album which they recorded at Abbey Road.
“Love Your Neighbour is saying we’re all in this big old mess together and it would be good to get along a bit more and enjoy it. Talk to people more, help each other out when you can, say good morning and maybe take your head away from your phone for 5 minutes and appreciate the people standing next to you. I’d like to think that the record captures life’s daily situations that we all come across, all wrapped up in 3 minute bundles that you can sing along to”. – Joel Stoker
‘Love Your Neighbour’ is out now across all streaming platforms.
Indie Revolution’s Album Of The Month is Worldcub with their fantastic new album ‘Back To The Beginning’.
Worldcub invites you on a jaunt through past lives and memory with their brand new concept album ‘Back To The Beginning’ a carefully crafted collection of tracks containing sharp hooks, joyous West Coast pleasure trips and contemplative stop-offs along the way. Beguiling lead single and title track rumbles through time and space, that opens up new worlds on the arms of a kraut rock groove. spacey guitar licks, splashes of keyboards, floating harmonies, the vocal interplay guides you deep into the mind’s eye of a melody, at once both wistful for a past and for a future of unknowns.
Worldcub, are a group from North Wales piloted by brothers Cynyr (guitar & vocals) and Dion Hamer (drums & vocals), they began their musical journey under the name CaStLeS, taking influence from 70s/80s Paul McCartney and DIY ‘Fantastic Man’, William Onyeabor. They produce material from their home studio on the hills of Eryri, splicing together elements of surf guitar music, kraut-rock grooves and hypnotic psych tinged Cymru vocal harmonies.
Through fourteen lucid and addictive tracks ‘Back To The Beginning’ journeys through wormholes, keyholes and time warps. ‘Grog’ is an awesomely woozy trip, fantastic surf guitars decorate a pulsing percussive tapestry, trippy and lilting vocals, it could be something lifted from the famous Nuggets compilations. Haunting ‘One Small Mistake’ with its lucid melodies, almost bossa nova rhythms and bouncing psych pop sound, is an off kilter delight. The album also contains previous single ‘Look through the Keyhole’ is a hypnotic, West Coast tinged, surf inspired jaunt through past lives and memory. The record also contains Welsh language tracks the gleaming ‘Hel Y Hadau’ and the iridescent entwined melodies, 70s fuzz guitar and insidious percussion of ‘Pwysau Yn Pwyso’ which translates as a Pressing Matter.
Their self-released, site-specific themed debut album Fforesteering gained coverage on major platforms such as The Guardian and UNCUT Magazine, with air time on BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio Cymru & Wales. The band also earned their debut performance slot on the BBC Introducing stage at Reading & Leeds Festival and found success playing shows as part of the ‘Horizons 12’ scheme; which included a recording session at the historic Maida Vale Studios in London.
After an extensive run of live shows, including festivals such as Liverpool Sound City, Liverpool Psych Fest, Farmfest and more recently BreakOut West in Canada and main support to Public Service Broadcasting at FOCUS Wales Festival, Worldcub emerge again with a new catalogue of material for 2024 along with band members; Calvin Thomas on Bass and Jasmine Roberts on guitar.
Indie Revolutions Album Of The Month is indie psych-rock band The Mease with their fantastic new album ‘The Machine Rolls On’.
British indie psych-rock outfit The Mease are putting the world to rights through mega-catchy psych infused guitar tunes. Their sound has been likened to Doves, The Coral, The Verve and early Oasis. The six-piece indie rockers regularly feature on BBC Introducing and are captivating fans with their signature melodic, guitar driven anthems.
New album ‘The Machine Rolls On’ is a melting pot of shoegaze, psych rock and Britpop. Uplifting rock n roll songs and rebellious anthems. ‘Upcoming Bands’.
The Mease are one of the biggest followed new indie bands on the scene right now and released their explosive debut album ‘The World in High Definition’ in September 2022, which has received five-star reviews and was awarded a ‘top 10 album of 2022’ accolade from This Is The Music.
A lineup reshuffle sees the multi-talented Jack Stanger join the band on drums along with backing vocals from classically trained singer Mollie Garratt. They join singer Tris Cooper, guitarist Guy Smith, bass player Jon Wright and Adam Goulding is on the keys.
‘The Machine Rolls On’ is available now to listen to on all streaming platforms!
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